The Land of Perfect Justice

Solon stood before the people of Athens, their murmurs rising and falling like the waves crashing against the harbor behind him. When he spoke, his voice carried conviction enough to command them all. “Fellow Athenians! I am tasked to give just laws to this polity, but I do not know the meaning of that word. Send forth the wisest among you, that I may task him to go out in search of it.” His speech lingered; the ebb and flow of the Aegean Sea filling the space again. Murmurs resumed, first quiet